How science fiction reflects science fact

UnDisciplined by UPR Utah Public Radio

Jun 4, 202625:56Science & Medicine

If one of the most important roles of science fiction is that it makes unfamiliar ideas emotionally legible, what are the ideas that we need to be reading about right now?

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